School districts across Texas offer many other examples of Bible courses that have turned public school classrooms into Sunday school classrooms. For example, the only classroom resource listed by Lazbuddie ISD declares in its introduction:

“Don’t worry about scriptures you do not understand. Simply concentrate on what God reveals to you in His Word and trust Him to make the vague things clearer to you as you continue to study.”

From materials used in Eastland ISD:

“The Bible was written under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit by over 40 different authors from all walks of life: shepherds, farmers, tent-makers, physicians, fishermen, priests, philosophers and kings. Despite these differences in occupation and the span of years it took to write it, the Bible is an extremely cohesive and unified book.”

The same district, Eastland ISD, includes the following worksheet on the Bible’s creation story:

“Elohim [a Hebrew word used for God] created not only the universe, but angels, millions of angels, who do errands for him. Angels always stay angels. We never become angels while we live or when we die. They are created to serve God as messengers. Angles [sic] cannot reproduce with each other because they are, it seems, all males. One of the angels God created was named Lucifer aka Light-bearer, Day Star, Morning Star.”

Brenham ISD’s students need not doubt the divinity and resurrection of Jesus. A PowerPoint slide emphasizes:

“Christ’s resurrection was an event that occurred in time and space – that it was, in reality, historical and not mythological (cf. 2 Pet. 1:16).”

Materials in Ector County ISD even ask students to fill out a table identifying proof that the resurrection happened:

As we have said before, it’s one thing for students to learn that Christians believe many of these things. After all, such claims would be important to know in a course about the cultural and historical influence of the Bible. But public schools simply may not teach faith beliefs as fact and turn their classrooms into tools for evangelizing.

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Easy answer, if you are unhappy than move to a Socialist state, you people want a Battle and understand that there are those that will Push back and are watching and listening and your posts will be shared with all other Conservative Sites, Blogs and FaceBook Groups.

The thing to watch out for now is the American Vision and other Dominionists deciding to displace the Dispensationalists and put in place their plot to destroy American schools and replace them with homeschooling, the better to tear down American government from within and create a purely Dominionist state based on Levitican law. You know, like the Taliban did to Afghanistan and Mali? Are you aware this struggle even exists?

I love the typos. The fact that our public schools have Bible classes AND that the course materials have typos like “equippes” and “angles” really say a lot about the state of public education in our state.

The Bible was written under the influence of the Holy Spirit? Well I guess if I lived in Eastland ISD I would have no choice but to file a lawsuit since we Unitarians don’t believe in spirits, holy or otherwise.

Ok. Obviously crossing the line. If kids want to study religion outside of what is presented by their chuch’s pograms, they can pay for and take a course when they get to college. Their churches should be taking this role, not the Texas public school system.